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French militant Jose Bove ordered to prison
France's star anti-globalisation militant Jose Bove was ordered to prison to serve a
three-month jail sentence for his 1999 demolition of a McDonald's outlet.
Bove told AFP that police had handed him a summons to turn up to the Villeneuve
les Maguelonne prison near the southern city of Montpellier early Wednesday.
French authorities, fearing his incarceration could have upset presidential and
parliamentary elections held over the past two months, had put off imposing the
sentence handed down by a court in February.
But the last of the polls finished Sunday, ushering in a centre-right government that
has pledged to be tough on law-and-order issues and to implement President
Jacques Chirac's "zero impunity" pledge on crime.
Bove, a moustachioed former farmer who has built a worldwide reputation for his
active opposition to multinational companies, US trade policies and globalisation's
negative effects on workers and the poor, vowed to make his time behind bars as
politically embarrassing for the new government as possible.
"I won't go alone. We've decided to go in a procession," he said.
"The first political decision of (Prime Minister Jean-Pierre) Raffarin's government
and of the majority coming from Sunday's vote is to repress the labour movement.
"My incarceration is a clear message to the labour movement that challenges to
globalisation will no longer be accepted."
Bove and a group of other farmers angry with punitive US trade tariffs on French
goat cheese exports used tractors to tear apart a McDonald's fast-food restaurant
under construction in the southern town on Millau in 1999.
He tried to have the criminal charges set aside, arguing that the action had been a
political demonstration, but in February a court quashed that appeal and ruled that
he would have to serve three months, minus the 20 days he had already spent in
custody.
With good behaviour, the total term could end up being as low as one month.
But authorities dragged their heels, loath to give the militant a stage during the
sensitive election period.
"There is no way that the judicial institution is going to foul the electoral scene,"
Montpellier prosecutor Paul-Louis Aumeras said in April, explaining that Bove would
not be jailed until after the final presidential polls on May 5.
Bove capitalised on the surprising decision.
He refused to cut any face-saving deal, telling AFP in April: "There is no room for
negotiation -- either I'm free or I'm in prison."
And in the last few weeks he has been taunting police with regular queries about
when, exactly, he could expect to be put behind bars.
Now he has his answer. And France's new government has its first challenge to its
authority.
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